Gordon Hull, Foucault and Marx: on Subjectification and Exhaustion, New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science, 25 September 2017 I have been circling around the relation between Marx and Foucault for a while, and thinking in particular about the ways that they can be viewed as productively engaged, particularly at the intersection of primitive accumulation and …

Marder, L. Rethinking homo economicus in the political sphere. Constellations, 31 August 2017 DOI: 10.1111/1467-8675.12295 Abstract: Homo-economicus, this rational cost-benefit calculating interest-pursuing subject, in political analysis usually stands for the ordinary citizen little interested in unprofitable political knowledge. This subject appears as an obstacle to democratic governance, but it does not have to appear as …

Perryman, J., Maguire, M., Braun, A., & Ball, S. (2017). Surveillance, Governmentality and moving the goalposts: The influence of Ofsted on the work of schools in a post-panoptic era. British Journal of Educational Studies, September 2017, 1-19. DOI: 10.1080/00071005.2017.1372560 ABSTRACT This paper asks the question: to what extent do inspection regimes, particularly the Office for …

Deranty, J.-P., Dunstall, A. Doing justice to the past: Critical theory and the problems of historicism (2017) Philosophy and Social Criticism, 43 (8), pp. 812-836. DOI: 10.1177/0191453716685757 Abstract In this article, we argue that the usual restriction of critical theory to ‘modern’ norms is subject to problems of coherence, historical accuracy and moral obligation. First, …

Todorof, Maria Borisof, Foucault and the Poster-Child for Conformism or the Cost of Identity in the Same-Sex Marriage Context (August 21, 2013). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2364097 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2364097 Open access Also on academia.edu Abstract The paper discusses the reconciliation between state and same-sex marriage which it is suggested could be seen as employment of a …

Allain, K.A., Marshall, B. Foucault retires to the gym: Understanding embodied aging in the third age (2017) Canadian Journal on Aging, 36 (3), pp. 402-414. DOI: 10.1017/S0714980817000216 Abstract In light of recent social pressures leading to a reimagining of the “Third Age” as a time of constant activity rather than repose and relaxation, this article …